Picture view word cap until "Read More…" link

[Barbara]

Hi there,

In the list view and using a mobile device to reach my event calendar, there appears a nice ‘Meer weten’ (Read More…) link for further information.

However, in the Picture view the text is much longer by default (as it appears), therefore I would love to be able to cap the word# at a specific number after which a Read More… link appears. Now it just ends with “…” instead of a “read More’ link. Can this be configured like the List-view?

Thanks!
Hans

[George]

Hey Hans,

I’m sorry to hear about these issues – the Photo View’s excerpts should be the same as those in List View, so I”m curious about what could be causing this discrepancy…to get started here, can you share your “System Information” with us? Here’s how → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/

That’ll give us a good place to start in terms of troubleshooting here.

Thank you!
George

[Barbara]

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[George]

Hey @Hans,

Thanks for elaborating on things and for sharing your information.

To get the “Find out more” link to appear on photo view, at this time you will unfortunately have first read our themer’s guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Using those principles, create a theme-specific version of this Events Calendar Pro plugin file:

src/views/pro/photo/single-event.php

You’ll want to duplicate that in your theme and then add a “Find out more” link manually to it right after the excerpt.

I made an example of this for you to refer to here, check out line 53 → https://goo.gl/41nEV4

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As for shortening or otherwise changing the length of excerpts, you can do that by using the excerpt_length filter built into WordPress itself as described here → https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length

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We can not help you implement any of this custom code, but hopefully all of these resources get you started in the right direction!

Best of luck with your customizations!
George

[Barbara]

Thanks! I will hold on to it for later as a nice to have.

Much appreciated 🙂
Hans

[George]

Sounds good Hans! I’m sorry that custom code is required at this time, but hope this code and information helps nonetheless 🙂

Cheers!
George

[Geoff]

Hey there, good news! We just released a patch for this issue and it’s available right now in The Events Calendar 3.12.6. Please update and feel free to hit us back up if any other issues pop up.

Thanks for your support while we worked on this!

Geoff

[George]

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